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Revolting preacher is no different to us than a racist in full pointy-hood regalia, or saluting skinhead scum. The message needs to sink in for them and, until they will behave like decent human beings (like their pathetic messiah demands of them) then they must be required by law.

We are not obliged to tolerate their nonsense in public places and the time has come to stop accommodating them

Putting your penis into another man’s @rse in not the same as being black, sweetheart. Many people, ESPECIALLY black African-Americans, find your comparison disgusting. Condemning buggery (a wilful, deliberate act) is not the same as hating people because they have a different skin colour. PS. The police Investigating someone’s comments? Talk about Big Brother.

And who are you to claim to speak for black people? The NAACP make precisely the same point as Valksy and it was also made at the recent MLK anniversary celebrations by multiple participants. While genuinely representative groups and notable black rights figures such as Jesse Jackson have voiced their support, you simply sound like any other uneducated moron with a heart filled with hate.

Many people, ESPECIALLY black African-Americans, find your comparison disgusting. Shut up and find a hobby or someone to love then you won’t care what other people do with their lives. You are either a DL man or are married to one. You are the only people who get really hostile

We ought to be putting pressure on Church leaderships across the board to root out deep seated hatred amongst their officers and representatives. if you can get kicked out of a political party for this kind of prurience then why not a Church?

I would like this man to prove to me that the bible is the truth, now this means concrete proof not just the book. because you could also say Spiderman exists simply because you can read about Spiderman. a large percentage of the bible is stolen from other religions. The Catholic church has all the records but they will never make that public. I am so sick of these Christian nuts, who want to enforce their view of what’s right and wrong on everybody else

That explains nothing whatsoever, although granted it used to work in the past. Try using “It’s a matter of faith” to excuse other types of offensive or controlling behaviour, you will be either sectioned or arrested.

Sorry – I should have said the bible is not literally factual history. It is truth in the sense I described. People go badly wrong when they try to make metaphorical stories into concrete literal facts.

I keep saying it, this all comes back to crazy despots who believe they are “superior”. They are so insecure in themselves and view themselves as so incredibly weak, that they need this to make them feel “special” or powerful.

Religious leaders are really no different to any other despot… they all have a rabid sense of superiority over others, that they had some kind of “right” to dictate to others. This gives them an inflated sense of self worth.

Unfortunately, men like this give all religious people a bad name. It’s why I have so little respect for anyone religious.

There is only so many times you can be attacked by individuals within a group of people before you deem everyone within that group to be a hateful bigot.

Guilt by association may not be fair, but it’s the best way to deal with groups who continuously attack you.

The police should not be involved in this matter at all. As long as they are not threatening or inciting violence or harassment, people with retarded views on homosexuality should be free to air them to their hearts’ content. It is foolish in the extreme to give this crank and his benighted mind-set the publicity that he is seeking, thus helping him to misrepresent himself as a virtuous martyr.

This is nothing different than racism or sexism, if you take his pronouncements and put the meanings into that context it is no different – so it should be here.
Just because he cites HIS interpretation of his holy scrolls to justify it, is no excuse, he is fomenting hatred and denigrating a minority and implying they should not exist , the fact it may be loosely based on a religious belief is no excuse to stir hatred in a public place. If this was directed at any other legaly protected minority he would be serving jail time!! Enough.

Scarey how brainwashed by religion someone can be – especially someone you’d assume to be intelligent (Doctor …?). I assume he finds homosexuality ‘offensive’ because he spends time obsessing about it? Well, the answer’s simple. Stop obsessing about it and find something more important to do with your time – like sending money to the starving in Africa or Syrian refugees. I think your ‘god’ would award you far more brownie points for that than for allowing your self-hatred to spill over into persecuting a few people having a good time in a park.

Jesus forbade force (Matthew 6:52) as did Paul (Ephesians 6). He did however tell us to preach the Gospel to everybody (Matthew 28:19) and in a land that claims free speech there shouldn’t be a problem with that should there? Regards,

I dont think he should be treated any differently from any other person going about distributing leaflets denigrating and misrepresenting a distinct group, inspiring hate and harrassing people, just because he cites divine inspiration for his deeds is not an excuse for this vile behaviour.

Ah, but it’s “faith” you see, so that makes it alright somehow.? It’s a bit like using the word “mysterious” to try to explain the appalling amount of suffering in this world overseen by an omnipotent god.. As if that explained anything at all.

As with ‘Dr’ Sharon James, I am intrigued to know what entitlement Alan Clifford has to be called’Dr’. If it were bona fide, I’m sure he’d be happy to share with us the provenance of his intellectual authority.

It’s great news, isn’t it? One phone call about anyone we dislike, and they get a visit from the police, a fine, a criminal record! And best all, while hating him like poison, we accuse *him* of hate!!!

I do wonder, just slightly, if times should change at all, whether this precedent might affect us at all?